Creating a DOS partition...

[Justin S]

Hey Everyone,

I have a question. I have a computer that had Windows 95 and Red Hat 6.1 on it setup with LILO. I say "had" because I've totally deleted all DOS partitions, thus getting rid of Windows all together. But before I get into that, let me just say that I'm trying to wipe my hard drives completely clean. Anyway, getting back to what I've done... So I deleted all DOS partitions, as well as all Linux partitions. Here are my questions...

1) How can I get rid of LILO? It still comes up when I boot up the computer.

2) I've done all this because I want to install Windows 98 on the computer. But, since I deleted all DOS partitions, I can't do that (at least I don't think I can). So my question is: is it possible to create DOS partitions using the Red Hat 6.1 installed and FDISK?

Thanks for any help...

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Justin Stayton

[mastersibn]

start the computer with the Win98 disc in the drive. It will install normally, and might ask you to create a partition table. Go ahead and do that, Linux can have its own partition (if you drive is over 8.4GB, then that *might* complicate things) after Windows. When you install Windows, it will automatically uninstall Lilo (something I detest http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif if i uninstall Lilo, i want it to be *my* choice http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif).

then you should be able to install linux after it...

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[manux]

to get rid of lilo boot with windows bootdisk and run
fdisk /mbr

you can use linux's fdisk to create dos partition. "cfdisk" is much easier to use.

[:strain:]

Yeah, you can use fdisk or cfdisk in Linux to lay out your partition table. Remember to reboot after you change your partition table so the changes take effect.

You can lay down a dos filesystem on a partition with the mkfs.FS command.

ie:

mkfs.vfat -F{12,16,32} /dev/{device}

where {12,16,32} is ONE of them denoting the FAT type.